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A well known and easy to learn dice game which gives children plenty of adding practice.

Age:
5+

Skills:
Adding

Equipment:
3 dice
Pencil and paper or score chart

How to play

Roll the dice and keep the highest. Roll the remaining dice and again set aside the highest. Roll the last die, and add up your total. Write down your score.

Play a number of rounds and then either total your points for the winner or simply count how many rounds were won by each player.

Variations:

Substitute specialty dice with higher numbers.

Older children could try multiplying the dice together to get their score.

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